News from August 2016
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: The Director of the Intermountain Region, National Park Service (NPS), signed a decision document earlier this summer that enabled Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) to conduct repairs to the Alluvial Fan, Ypsilon Lake, and Lawn Lake Trails that were damaged in the September 2013 flood. Repair work has already begun on some sections. It will be a few years before the reroutes and repairs are completed on all three trails.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Thursday, August 25 is the National Park Service's 100th anniversary. Jefferson National Expansion Memorial has announced plans to celebrate the Centennial, including a commemoration celebration in Luther Ely Smith Square, "Lift Every Voice: The Black Experience in the Heartland" play, performances by...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -Steven Jack Hayes, 60, of Hudsonville, Michigan, was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison after being convicted of two felonies in connection with an investment fraud scheme he perpetrated between 2001 and 2015. U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell imposed the sentence...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Lookout Mountain, TN: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to join the millions of visitors, past and present, to Lookout Mountain and participate in programs about historical visits to Point Park on Saturday, August 20 beginning at 9 am and ending at 4 pm. The majority...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: A search for a missing hiker ended successfully this morning when she was reunited with family at the Mowich Lake trailhead in Mount Rainier National Park.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, commented Tuesday after a U.S. district court ordered Backpage.com to comply with a Senate subpoena and hand over documents within 10 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Each Ordered To Pay $50,000 Fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO-A federal jury found Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E") guilty today of multiple willful violations of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 (“PSA") and obstructing an agency proceeding, announced U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Yesterday, a mother and her son pled guilty to conspiring to import Ecstasy from the Netherlands.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Rodney Begay, of Tuba City, Ariz., a member of the Navajo Indian Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 235 months in prison, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release. Begay had previously pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact of a minor.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: THURMONT, Md. -Catoctin Mountain Park is partnering with the Catoctin Forest Alliance to present a CentennialExtravaganza celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the National Park Service at Camp GreentoponSaturday, Aug. 27,2016.Catoctin Mountain Park is partnering with the Catoctin Forest Alliance to present a Centennial Extravaganza celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the National Park Service at Camp Greentop on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - On Aug. 8, 2016, Michael K. Judy, 62, of Smoke Signal, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 24 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Judy had previously pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Duncan Tendoy, 52, of Fort Hall, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 24 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Tendoy to serve three years of supervised release. Tendoy pleaded guilty to the charge on April 26, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A 19-year-old defendant pleaded guilty Monday to a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy on Fort Riley, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2016
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on a proposal to offer about 100,000 acres of federal minerals in northwestern Colorado in the May 2017 competitive oil and gas lease sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2016
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A Springfield, Ill., man, Andrew Miles Ross, was sentenced on Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, to serve 42 months (three years, six months) in federal prison and to pay $14,389 in restitution for operating a telemarketing advertising scam. Ross, 33, of the 3100 block of S. Woodward St., was allowed to self-report to begin serving his prison term at a later date, as directed by the federal Bureau of Prisons.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Northampton Hospital Company, LLC d/b/a Easton Hospital (“Easton Hospital") has agreed to resolve allegations relating to improper billing for inpatient procedures performed at Easton Hospital. Easton Hospital provides inpatient and outpatient healthcare services in Easton, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2016
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Thomas Joseph Wehner Jr., 40, of Moyie Springs, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to one count of distribution of methamphetamine resulting in death. The charges stemmed from a six-count indictment in February of this year. Wehner appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris to enter the guilty plea.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 8, 2016
News Release: Contact: DHS S&T Press Office, John Verrico (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced the kickoff of EMERGE 2016: Wearable Technology, seeking the development of state of the art wearable technologies on the commercial market that can be modified for first responders.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 8, 2016
News Release: DHS S&T Press Office, John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has announced the Next-Generation Incident Command System (NICS,) an information sharing tool for first responders, is now available worldwide.